{"id":34058,"date":"2014-05-01T02:45:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T02:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=34058"},"modified":"2023-08-25T21:46:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T21:46:12","slug":"more-jazz-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=34058","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230; <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Melody Gardot<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Jane Monheit<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Hope Waits\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>&#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Kate Paradise<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Tierney Sutton<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0Karrin Allyson\u00a0 \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #333300;\">Patricia Barber<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Madeleine Peyroux<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">Joni Mitchell<\/span>\u00a0 &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 13px;\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3PJJ0gXztSI\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-r59HKeCM4U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-35255\" src=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/singer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/singer.jpg 103w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/singer-78x150.jpg 78w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/a>I love a piano, I love a piano.<br \/>\nI love to hear somebody play upon a piano, a grand piano.<br \/>\nIt simply carries me away.<br \/>\nI know a fine way to treat a Steinway.<br \/>\nI love to run my fingers o&#8217;er the keys, the ivories.<br \/>\nAnd with the pedal I love to meddle.<br \/>\nWhen Mr Padarewski comes this way.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so delighted if I&#8217;m invited to hear a long haired genius play.<br \/>\nTake your fiddle, keep your bow.<br \/>\nGive me a p-i-a-n-o o o.<br \/>\n<strong>I love to stop right beside an upright,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>or a high toned baby grand&#8230;<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">[Judy Garland]<\/address>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7<\/h5>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a4\u00a0 \u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Melody Gardot\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h6 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0&#8216;My One And Only Thrill&#8217;\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 [2009]<\/h6>\n<div class=\"bbVIQb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">Birds may cease to spread their wings<br \/>\nBut it don&#8217;t matter<br \/>\nBut it don&#8217;t matter<br \/>\nWhen does May envelop spring<br \/>\nBut it don&#8217;t matter<br \/>\nBut it don&#8217;t matter, &#8216;cause<br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m with you<br \/>\nMy whole world stands still<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re my one and only thrill<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">Ships may never leave the dock<br \/>\nBut it don&#8217;t matter<br \/>\nBut it don&#8217;t matter<br \/>\nTicks may never hear a tock<br \/>\nBut it don&#8217;t matter<br \/>\nBut it don&#8217;t matter, &#8216;cause<br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m with you<br \/>\nMy whole world stands still<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re my one and only thrill<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbVIQb\">\n<div class=\"ujudUb u7wWjf\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mh=\"-1\">Shores may never reach the tide<br \/>\nBut it don&#8217;t matter<br \/>\nBut it don&#8217;t matter<br \/>\nBuds may never open wide<br \/>\nBut it don&#8217;t matter<br \/>\nBut it don&#8217;t matter, &#8216;cause<br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m with you<br \/>\nMy whole world stands still<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re my one and only thrill<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re my<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re my<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb WRZytc xpdxpnd\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mh=\"44\" data-mhc=\"1\">You&#8217;re my one and only<br \/>\nThrill\u00a0 \u21d3<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=52yxuJKS4JY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34102\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/melody_g.jpg\" alt=\"melody_g\" width=\"340\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/melody_g.jpg 340w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/melody_g-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/melody_g-150x78.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2003 she was run over by a car while riding her bicycle; in the accident she suffered serious head and spinal injuries and she got her\u00a0pelvis broken\u00a0in two places. Because of these severe injuries, she was confined to her\u00a0hospital\u00a0bed for over a year and had to remain lying on her back.\u00a0She had to re-learn things like speak and walk, she also took up the guitar and music was her main therapy. <strong>Bravo Melody! \u00a0<strong>\u2022\u2192\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alwaysontherun.net\/melodygardot.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.alwaysontherun<\/a>\u2190<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RmrncibkqA0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u25ca\u2192 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qmWg_cNLfTI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;If I Tell You I Love You&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 [\u00abThe Absence\u00bb_2012]<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mp4S2d4lRPE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0&#8216;<b>Same To You&#8217;\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 [\u00abCurrency of Man\u00bb_2015]<\/b><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jb3lTVL7qM8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">What you gonna&#8217; get for all you got<br \/>\nwhen you treat the one you love like they are not<br \/>\nWho you gonna call while you&#8217;re on your own<br \/>\nyou built the bed you burned right within your home<\/p>\n<p>You had somebody who loved you<br \/>\nwhat did you do<br \/>\nyou had somebody who loved you<br \/>\nwhat d&#8217;ya put them through now honey<br \/>\nYou left somebody who loved you<br \/>\nNow they gonna do the same to you<br \/>\nLord, they gonna do the same to you<br \/>\n<strong>(the same to you&#8230;)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What you gonna get while you&#8217;re moving on<br \/>\nto some other kind of thrill but the thrill is gone<br \/>\nsay you gonna be fine while you&#8217;re on you&#8217;re own<br \/>\nyou left the one you love right there alone<\/p>\n<p>You had somebody who loved you<br \/>\nwhat did you do<br \/>\nyou had somebody who loved you<br \/>\nwhat d&#8217;ya put them through now honey<br \/>\nYou left somebody who loved you<br \/>\nNow they gonna do the same to you<br \/>\nLord, they gonna do the same to you<br \/>\n<strong>(the same to you&#8230;)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Wgr9ln82_8\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2665\u00a0 \u00a0&#8216;Worrisome Heart&#8217;\u00a0 \u2191<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I need a hand with my worrisome heart<br \/>\nI need a hand with my worrisome heart<br \/>\nI would be lucky to find me a man<br \/>\nWho could love me the way that I am<br \/>\nWith this here worrisome heart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I need a break from my troubling ways<br \/>\nI need a break from my troubling ways<br \/>\nI would be lucky to find me a man<br \/>\nWho could love me the way that I am<br \/>\nWith all my troubling ways<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I need a man who got no baggage to claim<br \/>\nI need a man who got no baggage to claim<br \/>\nI would be lucky to find me a man<br \/>\nWho could love me the way that I am<br \/>\nA worrisome troubling baggage free modern day dame<br \/>\nSaid a worrisome troubling baggage free modern day dame<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t no body the same<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7<\/h5>\n<h3 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">\u00a4 \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=adHRfM5hWGY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jane Monheit<\/a>\u00a0\u21d0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A vocalist with remarkable virtuosity and innate interpretative skills, Jane Monheit puts her own unique touch on beloved jazz standards, classic torch songs and contemporary pop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the young age of 20, Jane became first runner-up in the 1998 Thelonious Monk Institute\u2019s vocal competition behind the late, great Teri Thornton. Soon after, Jane released her stunning debut album,\u00a0<em><strong>Never Never Land<\/strong><\/em>, featuring Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, and Lewis Nash. The first of four recordings for N-Coded\u2014a label founded by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen with Phil Ramone\u2014the album was voted Best Recording Debut by the Jazz Journalists Association and stayed on the Billboard jazz chart for a year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yKmKDwUdv1E\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bye bye baby time to <strong>hit the road to dreamland<\/strong><br \/>\nYou&#8217;re my baby dig you in the land of nod<br \/>\nHold tight baby we&#8217;ll be swinging up in dreamland<br \/>\nAll night baby where the little cherubs trot<br \/>\nLook at that knocked out moon<br \/>\nYou been a-blowing his top in the blue<br \/>\nNever saw the likes of you<br \/>\nWhat an angel<br \/>\nBye bye baby time to hit the road to dreamland<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t cry baby it was divine but the rooster has finally crowed<br \/>\nTime to hit the road<\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u221e\u00a0 Jane Monheit with Les Paul Trio \u00a0\u2193 \u00a0\u00abEast of the Sun (West of the Moon)\u00bb<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HZJuk_IR5HA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">East of the sun and west of the moon<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll build a dream house of love dear<br \/>\nClose to the sun in the day<br \/>\nNear to the moon at night<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll live in a lovely way dear<br \/>\nSharing our love in the pale moonlight<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Just you and I, forever and a day<br \/>\nLove will not die; we&#8217;ll keep it that way<br \/>\nUp among the stars we&#8217;ll find a harmony of life to a lovely tune<br \/>\nEast of the sun and west of the moon dear<br \/>\nEast of the sun and west of the moon<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u2022 \u00a0&#8216;They Can&#8217;t Take That Away From Me&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0\u2193 \u00a0[w\/ John Pizzarelli]<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9S2YR-BBdb4?si=zP-m1XBQaRdzn5nK\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our romance won&#8217;t end on a sorrowful note<br \/>\nThough by tomorrow you&#8217;re gone<br \/>\nThe song has ended but as the song writer wrote<br \/>\nThe melody lingers on<br \/>\nThey may take you from me<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll miss your fond caress<br \/>\nBut though they take you from me<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll still possess<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The way you wear your hat<br \/>\nThe way you sip your tea<br \/>\nThe memory of all that<br \/>\nNo no they can&#8217;t take that away from me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The way your smile just beams<br \/>\nThe way you sing off key<br \/>\nThe way you haunt my dreams<br \/>\nNo no they can&#8217;t take that away from me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We may never never meet again<br \/>\nOn the bumpy road to love<br \/>\nStill I&#8217;ll always always keep the memory of<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The way you hold your knife<br \/>\nThe way we danced &#8216;til three<br \/>\nThe way you changed my life<br \/>\nNo no they can&#8217;t take that away from me<br \/>\nNo they can&#8217;t take that away from me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0&#8216;All Too Soon&#8217;\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 \u00a0[with\u00a0 Nicholas Payton_2016]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/acPCaE9jGRc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>All too soon &#8211; We had to part<br \/>\nThe moment you had touched my heart<br \/>\nAnd with you went my dream<br \/>\nAll too soon<br \/>\nAll too sweet\u00a0 was our affair<br \/>\nAnd you put all the sweetness there<br \/>\nWhat a shame that it&#8217;s gone<br \/>\nAll too soon<br \/>\n<strong>I knew the strange delights<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That only you in love could bring<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And as I reached the heights<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I realised the bottom fell from everything<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>You should know as well as I<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Our love deserves another try<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>For you whispered goodbye<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>All too soon<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Too soon<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ksVilS8dhd4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-34066\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hope_waits.jpg\" alt=\"hope_waits\" width=\"186\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hope_waits.jpg 227w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hope_waits-150x148.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u2665\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jCTaXcWTxNU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Hope Waits<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 \u2190<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2190Hope Waits<\/strong> possesses that rare talent that is born of challenge, pain and heart. Growing up in the bayous of Louisiana \u2013 in a trailer that rarely had electricity or running water \u2013 Hope\u2019s voice was strong from the beginning. The 7th of 12 children born to an alcoholic father and an overprotective, God-fearing mother, Hope spent her badly-off childhood moving from place to place. . . Then she stuck <span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0around the South for several years before ultimately landing in Los Angeles. Chance brought her into Chessvolt Studios where she met producer Peter Malick (Norah Jones) and his business partner Douglas Grossman. The two signed her to their label and released her self-titled debut album to rave reviews.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2666 \u00a0&#8216;I&#8217;ll Be Satisfied&#8217; \u00a0\u2193<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7SgpWdNVfuk\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Just a kiss, just a smile<br \/>\nHold my hand baby, once in a while.<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s all I need, that&#8217;s all I need<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll be Satisfied.<br \/>\nThink of me, when you&#8217;re away<br \/>\nCall me darling, just for today<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s all I need, that&#8217;s all I need<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll be satisfied<br \/>\nOh, true love came to me, when I met you<br \/>\nTrue love makes me know I might not forget you<br \/>\nWhen you&#8217;re around me, you know you make me feel<br \/>\nLife is worth livin&#8217; baby, when you&#8217;re so forgivin&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Just a kiss, just a smile<br \/>\nHold my hand baby, once in a while.<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s all I need, that&#8217;s all I need<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll be Satisfied.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u2666 \u00a0&#8216;Heavies&#8217; \u00a0\u2193<\/strong> \u00a0[2012]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CHVZ8uKa0Uo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Flat on my back, feeling like a wreck<br \/>\nI took the last drag of my last cigarette<br \/>\nFollowed the smoke, watched as it rolled up to heaven<br \/>\nIt was a song that played in my head<br \/>\nIt drove me crazy with the chorus, it said,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Oh no. Here come the heavies<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> They&#8217;re gonna hit you hard so you better get ready<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Oh no, here come the heavies again<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Oh no, here come the heavies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I drag my feet down a long and crowded street<br \/>\nTalk to myself just for the company<br \/>\nI try my best to keep my feet from stumbling<br \/>\nBut I had to sit down on the cold cold ground<br \/>\nThe clouds rolled in and the rain came down<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Oh, no. Here come the heavies . . .\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Well, the sun came out with the change in the weather<br \/>\nIt got a little warmer and I felt a little better<br \/>\nKnew that shitty luck wouldn&#8217;t last forever<br \/>\nSo I stood back up I was feelin&#8217; kinda rough<br \/>\nGotta tell the blues, \u00abOh no!\u00bb \u00abOh no!\u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh, no. Here come the heavies<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re gonna hit you hard so you better get ready<br \/>\n<strong>Oh no, here come the heavies again . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh, no &#8230; Here they come &#8230;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vagalume.com.br\/hope-waits\/you-crossed-the-line.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;You Crossed The Line&#8217;\u00a0<\/a> \u21d0\u00a0 [2007]<\/h6>\n<p><strong>\u2666\u2192\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=reM7GZQokw0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Mother In Law Blues&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0 \u21d3<\/strong>\u00a0 [2012]<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AHKRYqQjiR4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was early in the mornin&#8217;\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 I heard a rooster crow for days<br \/>\nYeah it was early in the mornin&#8217;\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 I heard a rooster crow for days<br \/>\nI looked out my window and saw my baby walk away<\/p>\n<p>I thought, \u00abLord, please stop him &#8211; Ain&#8217;t gonna get drunk no more\u00bb<br \/>\nI thought, \u00abLord, please stop him &#8211; Ain&#8217;t gonna get drunk no more\u00bb<br \/>\nI hollered out my window\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 \u00abCome back baby please don&#8217;t go\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>I know he heard me callin&#8217;\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 He looked back and waved his hand<br \/>\nI know he heard me callin&#8217;\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 He looked back and waved his hand<br \/>\nI could hear him tell his momma &#8211; \u00abThat&#8217;s one no good woman\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Well, I watched my baby leave\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 His momma had him by the hand<br \/>\nWell, I watched my baby leave\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 His momma had him by the hand<br \/>\nI&#8217;d give anything I have\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 Just to see my man again<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7<\/h5>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u221e \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateparadise.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Kate Paradise<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00abHer voice is sultry but classy; she doesn&#8217;t feel the need to belt out a jazz standard just to get your attention. She understands the power of subtlety. \u00bb \u00a0[<strong>Brent Hallenbeck]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8216;Mean to Me&#8217; \u00a0\u2193\u00a0<\/strong> [2009]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ms656mZ-lD0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You&#8217;re mean to me<br \/>\nWhy must you be mean to me?<br \/>\nGee, honey, it seems to me<br \/>\nYou love to see me cryin&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I don&#8217;t know why<br \/>\nI stay home each night<br \/>\nWhen you say you&#8217;ll phone<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t and I&#8217;m left alone<br \/>\nSinging the blues and sighin&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You treat me coldly<br \/>\nEach day in the year<br \/>\nYou always scold me<br \/>\nWhenever somebody is near<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dear, it must be<br \/>\nGreat fun to be mean to me<br \/>\nYou shouldn&#8217;t, for can&#8217;t you see<br \/>\nWhat you mean to me<\/p>\n<p id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2207\u00a0\u00a0 &#8216;I Didn&#8217;t Know What Time It Was&#8217;\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uIFnR62Jw3U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">I didn&#8217;t know what time it was &#8211;\u00a0Then I met you.<br \/>\nOh, what a lovely time it was,\u00a0How sublime it was too!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">I didn&#8217;t know what day it was &#8211;\u00a0You held my hand.<br \/>\nWarm like the month of May it was, and I&#8217;ll say it was grand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Grand to be alive, and young,\u00a0and mad, and yours alone!<br \/>\nGrand to see your face, feel your touch,\u00a0hear your voice say I&#8217;m all your own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">I didn&#8217;t know what year it was &#8211;\u00a0Life was no prize.<br \/>\nI wanted love and here it was,\u00a0shining out of your eyes.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m wise, and I know what time it is now.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7<\/h5>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2663\u00a0 Tierney Sutton<\/span> \u00a0\u2193<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 6-time Grammy Nominee as both a recording artist and arranger, Sutton is often described as \u201ca singer\u2019s singer,\u201d but just as often, she is described as a \u201cmusician\u2019s singer\u201d who uses her voice like an instrument.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most recently, Tierney received her 5th\u00a0consecutive Grammy Nomination for \u201cBest Jazz Vocal Album\u201d for her latest project, <em>\u201cAfter Blue,\u201d<\/em> an intimate, jazz-inspired re-imagining of the legacy of <strong>Joni Mitchell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qbB5g1sjS2Y\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sometimes I&#8217;m happy<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Sometimes I&#8217;m blue<br \/>\nMy disposition depends on you<br \/>\nI never mind the rain from the skies<br \/>\nAs long as I have the sun in your eyes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sometimes I love you &#8211;\u00a0Sometimes I hate you<br \/>\nWhen I hate you, it&#8217;s because I love you<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s how I am &#8211;\u00a0So what can I do<br \/>\nI&#8217;m happy when I&#8217;m with you<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00b7 \u00b7 \u00b7 &#8216;The Surrey With The Fringe On Top&#8217; \u2193\u00a0 (O. Hammerstein)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vx-AwUH0xJ4\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> When I take you out in the surrey<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Watch that fringe and see how it flutters<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> When I drive them high steppen strutters<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Nosy pokes will peek through their shutters and their eyes will pop!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The wheels are yellow, the upholstry&#8217;s brown<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> The dashboard&#8217;s genuine leather<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> With eisenglass curtains you can roll right down<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In case there&#8217;s a change in the weather<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Two bright side lights winkin&#8217; and blinkin&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Ain&#8217;t no finer rig I&#8217;m a thinkin&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> You can keep your rig if you&#8217;re thinkin&#8217; that I&#8217;d keer to swap<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Fer that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7<\/h5>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u221e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/media\/video\/1694189.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Karrin Allyson<\/span> <\/a>\u00a0\u2193<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Karrin Allyson<\/strong>, like Peyroux, refuses to get caught up in the theatrics of jazz singing, and instead prefers to probe into the inner life of her songs. Her repertoire is quirky in a beguiling way, and moves from John Coltrane to Jacques Brel to Cat Stevens to Caetano Veloso, with surprising ease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2022\u00a0 &#8216;Moaning&#8217; \u21d3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wjoDjwe8vLw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Every morning find me moaning<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause of all the trouble I&#8217;ve seen<br \/>\nLife&#8217;s a losing gamble to me<br \/>\nEverybody knows I&#8217;m moaning<br \/>\nI&#8217;m alone and crying the blues<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so tired of paying these dues<br \/>\nEverybody knows I&#8217;m moaning<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lord I stay plenty of days and nights alone with my grief<br \/>\nAnd I pray, really and truly pray somebody will come and bring me relief<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Every morning find me moaning<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Cause of all the trouble I&#8217;ve seen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Life&#8217;s a losing gamble to me<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Everybody knows I&#8217;m moaning<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u221e\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;Blues In B Flat&#8217; \u00a0\u2193 with bassist, Jeff Johnson<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Y0ddDhcPEQ\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\" style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022\u2192<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v2V__a_QtUk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Hum Drum Blues&#8217;<\/a> \u21d0<\/h6>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7<\/h5>\n<h3 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u2663\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriciabarber.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Patricia Barber<\/span><\/a><a id=\"watch-headline-show-title\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/artist\/patricia-barber?feature=watch_video_title\"><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A tireless performer who refused to conform to more conventional vocal jazz idioms, she worked her way up through the Chicago jazz scene slowly, almost reluctantly, after having spent several years in Iowa attending college and performing with local groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2022\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zJmLR-1DDjE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Witchcraft&#8217;<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 \u21d0\u00a0[France_2004]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> \u2261 \u00a0&#8216;You and the Night and the Music&#8217; \u00a0\u2193<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lmoWoAKBREc\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2022\u2192\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8p6kKstDr2o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silent Partner\u00a0<\/a>\u21d4 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelyricarchive.com\/song\/260190-36371\/Silent-Partner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[lyrics]<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0&#8216;Use Me&#8217;\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 [2006]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ci27xPmQ4-w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"bbVIQb\">\n<div class=\"ujudUb\">\n<p>My friends feel it&#8217;s their appointed duty<br \/>\nThey keep trying to tell me all you want to do is use me<br \/>\nBut my answer yeah to all that use me stuff<br \/>\nIs I wanna spread the news that if it feels this good getting used<br \/>\nOh you just keep on using me until you use me up<br \/>\nUntil you use me up<\/p>\n<p>My brother, he sit me right down and talked to me<br \/>\nHe told me that I ought not to let you just walk on me<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m sure he meant well yeah but when our talk was through<br \/>\nI said brother if you only knew you&#8217;d wish that you were in my shoes<br \/>\nYou just keep on using me until you use me up<\/p>\n<p>Until you use me up<\/p>\n<p>Oh sometimes yeah it&#8217;s true you really do abuse me<br \/>\nYou get in a crowd of high class people and then you act real rude to me<br \/>\nBut baby baby baby baby when you love me I can&#8217;t get enough<br \/>\nAnd I wanna spread the news that if it feels this good getting used<br \/>\nOh you just keep on using me until you use me up<br \/>\nUntil you use me up<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2207\u00a0 Patricia Barber Trio\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 &#8216;In Your Own Sweet Way&#8217;\u00a0 [2017]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/07AIxw3T51w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7<\/h5>\n<h3 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2663\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/madeleinepeyroux.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Madeleine Peyroux<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in Georgia, raised in California and New York, coming of age in Paris, Peyroux was already exposed to the diverse musical crosscurrents of these setting before her rise to fame in her early twenties\u00a0 [&#8230;]\u00a0 In an age in which many jazz singers have caught the \u00abBroadway disease,\u00bb and try to belt it out to the back rows, offering a half-dozen flourishes and curlicues where even one is enough, Peyroux appreciates the power of under-statement. She is impressive because she never tries to impress. Her phrases take on a simple beauty, each small feint and pause given their proper attention. She has a delicious thickness to her voice, almost a whiskey slur, imparting depth to the lyrics of her songs. Even when she reaches for a high note\u2014a rarity in itself, given this singer&#8217;s penchant for lingering in the middle register\u2014she floats up to it lazily, almost reluctantly&#8230;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u25ca \u00a0 &#8216;The Summer Wind&#8217; \u21d3<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CnTxplw60FU\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The summer wind came blowing in from across the sea<br \/>\nit lingered there, so warm and fair to walk with me<br \/>\nAll summer long we sang a song and strolled on golden sand<br \/>\nTwo sweethearts and the summer wind<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Like painted kites, those days and nights went flyin by<br \/>\nThe world was new, beneath a blue umbrella sky<br \/>\nThen softer than a\u00a0piper man, one day it called to you<br \/>\nAnd I lost you to the summer wind<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The autumn wind and the winter wind have come and gone<br \/>\nAnd still the days, those lonely days, go on and on<br \/>\nAnd guess who sighs her lullabies through nights that never end<br \/>\nMy fickle friend,\u00a0The summer wind<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2022\u2192 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h4stmQUlNhQ&amp;feature=em-hot-vrecs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Don&#8217;t Wait Too Long&#8217; <\/a> \u21d0<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You can cry a million tears<br \/>\nYou can wait a million years<br \/>\nIf you think that time will change your ways<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t wait too long<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When your morning turns to night<br \/>\nWho&#8217;ll be loving you by candlelight<br \/>\nIf you think that time will change your ways<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t wait too long<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe I got a lot to learn<br \/>\nTime can slip away<br \/>\nSometimes you got to lose it all<br \/>\nBefore you find your way<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Take a chance, play your part<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Make romance, it might break your heart<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> But if you think that time will change your ways<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Don&#8217;t wait too long<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It may rain, it may shine<br \/>\nLove will age like fine red wine<br \/>\nBut if you think that time will change your ways<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t wait too long<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe you and I got a lot to learn<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t waste another day<br \/>\nMaybe you got to lose it all<br \/>\nBefore you find your way<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Take a chance, play your part<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Make romance, it might break your heart<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> But if you think that time will change your ways<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Don&#8217;t wait too long<\/strong><br \/>\nDon&#8217;t wait &#8230;\u00a0Hmm&#8230; Don&#8217;t wait<\/p>\n<h6><strong>\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0&#8216;Everything I Do Gohn Be Funky (From Now On)&#8217;\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 [L. Dorsey]<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UPvHt1lEir4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Everything I do gonh be funky from now on, yeah<br \/>\nI got to be myself &amp; do my thing<br \/>\nA little soul can\u2019t do no harm<br \/>\n<strong>Everything I do gonh be funky from now on, yeah . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, some may say I ain\u2019t got no class,<br \/>\nBut I\u2019m doin\u2019 what I wanna do<br \/>\nSo groove with me if you can,<br \/>\nOr just do what you can do<br \/>\n<strong>Everything I do gonh be funky from now on, yeah . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Never before have I been so good just bein\u2019 natural me<br \/>\nMy little hang ups &amp; my little times, but deep inside I\u2019m free<br \/>\nSo Let your hair down, get into it<br \/>\nWho\u2019s to say what\u2019s right or wrong?<br \/>\n<strong>Everything I do gonh be funky from now on, yeah . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7<\/h5>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u03b8\u00a0 Joni Mitchell + Jaco Pastorius + \u00a0Don Alias + Michael Brecker:<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JnpyCEUESEw\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0&#8216;The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>\u2191<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m down to a roll of dimes<br \/>\nI&#8217;m stalking the slot that&#8217;s hot<br \/>\nI keep hearing bells all around me<br \/>\nJingling in the lucky jackpots<br \/>\nThey keep you tantalized<br \/>\nThey keep you reaching for your wallet &#8211;\u00a0Here in fools&#8217; paradise<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I talked to a cat from Des Moines<br \/>\nHe said he ran a cleaning plant<br \/>\nThat cat was clanking with coin<br \/>\nWell he must have had a genie in a lamp<br \/>\n&#8216;cause every time I dropped a dime I blew it<br \/>\nHe kept ringing bells &#8211;\u00a0Nothing to it!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonimitchell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34916\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JoniM.jpg\" alt=\"JoniM\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JoniM.jpg 200w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/JoniM-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He got three oranges &#8211;\u00a0Three lemons &#8211;\u00a0Three cherries &#8211;\u00a0Three plums<br \/>\nI&#8217;m losing my taste for fruit<br \/>\nWatching the dry cleaner do it<br \/>\nLike Midas in a polyester suit<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all luck! \u00a0It&#8217;s just luck!<br \/>\nYou get a little lucky and you make a little money!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I followed him down the strip<br \/>\nHe picked out a booth at Circus Circus<br \/>\nwhere the cowgirls fill the room with their big balloons<br \/>\nThe cleaner was pitching with purpose!<br \/>\nHe had Dinos and Pooh Bears\u00a0and lions pink and blue there<br \/>\nHe couldn&#8217;t lose there!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Des Moines was stacking the chips<br \/>\nRaking off the tables<br \/>\nRinging the bandit&#8217;s bells<br \/>\nThis is a story that&#8217;s a drag to tell \u00a0(in some ways)<br \/>\nSince I lost every dime\u00a0I laid on the line<br \/>\nBut the cleaner from Des Moines<br \/>\nCould put a coin in the door of a John<br \/>\nAnd get twenty for one<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just luck!<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u25ca \u00a0Twisted \u00a0\u2193 \u00a0[1974]<\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iisYw0epV_Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My analyst told me that I was right out of my head<br \/>\nThe way he described it &#8211;\u00a0He said I&#8217;d be better dead than alive<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t listen to his jive<br \/>\nI knew all along that he was all wrong<br \/>\nAnd I knew that he thought\u00a0I was crazy but I&#8217;m not &#8212;\u00a0don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p>My analyst told me that I was right out of my head<br \/>\nHe said I need treatment but I&#8217;m not that easily led<br \/>\nHe said I was the type that was most inclined<br \/>\nWhen out of his sight to be out of my mind<br \/>\nAnd he thought I was nuts &#8211;\u00a0No more ifs or ands or buts<\/p>\n<p>They say as a child\u00a0I appeared a little bit wild with all my crazy ideas<br \/>\nBut I knew what was happening &#8211;\u00a0I knew I was a genius&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s so strange when you know that you&#8217;re a wizard at three<br \/>\nI knew that this was meant to be<\/p>\n<p>Now I heard little children were supposed to sleep tight<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why I got into the vodka one night<br \/>\nMy parents got frantic &#8211;\u00a0Didn&#8217;t know what to do<br \/>\nBut I saw some crazy scenes before I came to<br \/>\nNow do you think I was crazy<br \/>\nI may have been only three but I was swinging<\/p>\n<p>They all laugh at angry young men<br \/>\nThey all laughed at Edison and also at Einstein<br \/>\nSo why should I be sorry if they just couldn&#8217;t understand<br \/>\nThe idiomatic logic that went on in my head<br \/>\nI had a brain &#8211;\u00a0It was insane<br \/>\nOh they used to laugh at me when I refused to ride<br \/>\nOn those double decker buses &#8211;\u00a0All because there was no driver on the top \u00a0[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>My analyst told me that I was right out of my head<br \/>\nBut I said dear doctor,\u00a0I think that it&#8217;s you instead<br \/>\nBecause I, I got a thing that&#8217;s unique and new<br \/>\nTo prove it I&#8217;ll have the last laugh on you<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause instead of one head,\u00a0I got two<br \/>\nAnd you know two heads are better than one.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00f7<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Melody Gardot &#8211; Jane Monheit &#8211; Hope Waits &#8211; Kate Paradise &#8211; Tierney Sutton &#8211; Karrin Allyson &#8211; Patricia Barber &#8211; Madeleine Peyroux &#8211; Joni Mitchell &#8230; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I love a piano, I love a piano. I love to hear somebody play upon a piano, a grand piano. It simply [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":34060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[102,313],"class_list":["post-34058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-lyrics","tag-america","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34058"}],"version-history":[{"count":170,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55788,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34058\/revisions\/55788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}